spring 2018
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageNever the Desired Absence Nick Alti
Naming Cow Field Danielle Hanson
Trump As a Fire Without Light #665 Darren C. Demaree
Wet Parable Duck Carver Nathan Curnow
Push Armamentarium Adrienne Gruber
Synonyms For Shelter Jill Talbot
He Ring Liar's Dice Confluence Derek Thomas Dew
an understanding Natasha Zarin
Dear Chepe Wilbur Melissa Weiss
Ice Skating in Holland Carol Hamilton
The Path Discoverer Taylor Bond
drowning man is not a superhero Aidan Chafe
Sea Room / The Adrift Exhibit / Queer Lynx Joseph Spece
First Ultrasound Second Ultrasound Stephanie Yorke
Grim Reaper in Therapy Brandon Marlon
Like André Derain David R. Dixon
Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes Lauren Turner
an understanding
you, not yet two
called out in the night
I followed with my hands
down the hall
found you standing
in your crib
with few words in your arsenal
you screamed No
right through me
and cried out
for your father
by the time you were peeled from my arms writhing, in fits
and fell quiet on his shoulder
I no longer understood the logic and nonsense of night terrors
the right of anyone else
to hold you,
only
the woman who stares out the window in her housecoat
all day
the mother who walks into cold water
slowly